Digestion of pelagic Ctenophora and Cnidaria by fish

By M. Arai, D. Welch, Adrienne L. Dunsmuir, M. Jacobs, A. Ladouceur. 2003

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Energy budget calculations indicate resource limitation in Eastern Pacific leatherback turtles (2006, unknown): “…assumed 80% assimilation efficiency, based on measurements for slider turtles Trachemys scripta (Avery et al. 1993) fed a diet of similar protein content to that of pelagic jellyfish (Malej et al. 1993) and given the high digestion rate of gelatinous prey in fishes (Arai et al. 2003).”
Predation on pelagic coelenterates: a review (2005, background): “The only paper on digestion rates of fish eating coelenterates is the study by Arai et al. (2003) of chum salmon Oncorhynchus keta eating the ctenophore Pleurobrachia bachei described in the Introduction.”
Extension of methods for jellyfish and ctenophore trophic ecology to large-scale research (2008, background): “This method does not yet yield quantitative data on jellyfish or ctenophore abundance as well as feeding rates, but could be improved with knowledge of coincident abundances and digestion times of gelatinous species in the predators’ stomachs (Arai et al., 2003).”